This I believe
I believe that we have difficulties in life not because of a lack of skill but of a lack of mind set. Too often we find ourselves looking at the problem not the solution. I found this especially true when I was competing at state power lifting. Going into the competition I was extremely confident in my squat and it showed with a strong 365 lift. But I was nervous going into my bench and it showed with a mediocre 185 pounds. After this my mind set began to suffer as distractions struck me. My band teacher wanted me to show up at the basketball game for pep band and it was getting close to time for it to start and I wasn’t done lifting. I franticly ran to the meet organizer and begged him to move me up a flight. He agreed and moved me up to lifting with the girls but I didn’t care it let me lift earlier so maybe I could finish in time. But after I did my first lift I realized it wasn’t going to be enough and I was running short on time. At this point I was panicking worried about being late to pep band and having my grade drop. Suddenly my coach calmly said why don’t we call your teacher and explain our position to him? Out of the blue the voice of reason shown through and lit my path. My teacher graciously agreed to allow me to miss the performance and lift. I looked at the score board and realized I was going to have to beat my max to win the performance. But I was much calmer now and thinking rational now. I realized that I had to start looking for the solution not the problem. I went into the lift with an open mindset and beat my previous max by 30 pounds. I won the competition and more taught myself a valuable lesson. It showed me the truth in the fact that difficulties are mostly mental nothing else.
